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Strike Out Across The Shoreless Ocean, Julia Claire Paajanen

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

What happens between a reader and a poem is none of my business. The world has always been yours; find your own way.

(1) Every choice is correct.

(2) Everything is true.

(3) What is anything, unless so far as it is enjoyed?

All you have to do is see the course, and when you see it, go.

Hurricane Party, Alison Pelegrin

University of Akron Press Publications

"Hurricane Party is an original and rewarding work, a masterful follow-up to Big Muddy River of Stars, and a livewire, compelling contribution to American poetry. No other poet sounds like Pelegrin, and that's the sure sign of a writer at the top of her game." —Elton Glaser

American Busboy, Matthew Guenette

University of Akron Press Publications

"In American Busboy, a wry anti-mythology, the anti-hero busboy in an anonymous Clam Shack! tangles with the monotonous delirium of work, the indignities and poor pay of unskilled labor, the capricious deus ex machina of mean-spirited middle management, the zombified consumption of summer tourists, while jostling for the goddess-like attentions of waitresses and hostesses—all battered up in sizzlingly crisp wit and language, and deep-fried in a shiny glaze of surrealism." —Lee Ann Roripaugh

That’S The Beauty Of It, Or, Why John Ashbery Is Not A Painter, Clark Lunberry

English Faculty Research and Scholarship

The poet John Ashbery lived in Paris from roughly 1955 to 1965. It was during this period that Ashbery began writing art reviews, often examining the work of various Americans also living in Paris at this time. Among the many painters Ashbery was to review and publish about, one was the Chicago-born, Paris-based abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell and an exhibition of hers at a Paris gallery in 1964. In this essay I examine the early, more ““abstract”” poetry that Ashbery was developing during this period, thinking about it alongside the paintings of Mitchell (and, in particular, his writings about them). …

Autumn Leaflets: A Collection Of Poetry, Kayla I. Shown-Dean

Student Theses and Dissertations

This collection of poetry was inspired by Johnny Mercer's "The Autumn Leaves." Major themes of the collection include: the unity of nature, unification of all things, the role of Christians in the secular world, and the releasing of the past. While the majority of these poems are written in free verse, occasionally the author implements formal verse such as diamante, limerick, and experimentations with the sonnet and sestina. "Autumn Leaflets" is sorted into four different titled sections: "The Falling Leaves," "Of Red and Gold," "The Sunburned Hands," and "Old Winter's Song." Each section receives its title from Mercer's lyrics and …

Writing The Nothing That Is: A Review Of 'Visiting Wallace', Brian Glaser

English Faculty Articles and Research

Brian Glaser reviews "'Visiting Wallace: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Wallace Stevens", edited by Dennis Barone and James Finnegan.

Wanna Date?, Mac Hamilton

Arrow Rock

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Refrigerated Enlightenment, Dan Burkhead

Arrow Rock

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What Trials, Laine Scott

Arrow Rock

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Jump, Sarah Crawford

Arrow Rock

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The Complications Of Poetry, A La Poetry, Dan Burkhead

Arrow Rock

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Ballad To A Woman, Juan Sebastian Cornet Arce

Arrow Rock

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Navel, Tabitha Parker

Arrow Rock

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Transparent, Deborah Ann Herzog

Arrow Rock

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2011 Spring Quiz And Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

Quiz and Quill

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The Lantern, 2010-2011, Joshua Aungst, Amanda Blythe, Dominic Castanzo, Kristin Cichowski, Elisa Diprinzio, Atticus Graven, Brooke Haley, Josh Krigman, Greta Martikainen-Watcke, Connor Mcnamara, Logan Metcalf-Kelly, Benjamin Mooney, Andy Murray, Samantha Owen, Rachel Perry, Ellyn Rolleston, Scott Sherman, Dixon Speaker, Trevor Zumpano, Sarah Round, Rosie Clark, Edwin Kosik, Nick Hanford, Alyse Donnachie, Andrew Eron, Shane Kowalski, Josh Krigman, Anna Lorine, Tony Mcdonnell, Mj Mcginn, Rayna Nunes, Jonathan Palmisano, Allison Cavanaugh, Sarah Cogswell, Adam Dicaprio, Noelle Goldcamp, James Harper, Lindsay Hogan, Cory Kram, Katherine Murphy, Arielle Ross, Regan Dohm

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• The Graterford Department of Corrections
• Visiting Room: Lewis Considers the Space & Time Continuum
• String
• The Tale of Lad Wadley
• The Devout
• One Moment in the Garden
• Water, Focused and Tumbling
• Bomber
• Another
• I Walked Home
• Perhe
• I Describe the Last Time My Parents Had Sex
• Butterflies
• Ship Without Fools
• The Interview
• Cyane
• An Imaginary Portrait of Stella as a Young Girl
• At the Farm Market in Early Autumn
• Victor Jorgenson's Photograph of the V-J Day Kiss
• Lightning
• The …

Satori 2011, Winona State University

Satori Literary Magazine

The Satori is a student literary publication that expresses the artistic spirit of the students of Winona State University. Student poetry, prose, and graphic art are published in the Satori every spring since 1970.

The Monkey And The Wrench: Essays Into Contemporary Poetics, Mary Biddinger, John Gallaher

University of Akron Press Publications

The first volume in the "Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics," The Monkey & the Wrench, explores the debate over hybrid aesthetics, confronts the topic of contemporary rhyme, and ventures into the realm of persona and the mystical poem. This volume is ideal for both the classroom and the nightstand, for the poet's desk and the critic's bookshelf. Series editors Mary Biddinger and John Gallaher have assembled an eclectic collection that welcomes the reader into the conversation, while documenting the seismic activity of today's poetry world.

Le Spleen De Poughkeepsie, Joshua Harmon

University of Akron Press Publications

Winner of the 2010 Akron Poetry Prize, Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie is "a tender anti-epic, a grunge-tinged love song to America's benighted post-industrial heartland." Harmon's Poughkeepsie shimmers just beyond the borders of banal recognition. "If you're not part of the problem, / you're part of the lengthening / tragedy," Harmon writes in an introductory pastoral, seeking out "the stray / detours and workarounds of the secret / city inside the more obvious one...on the outskirts of the absurd / attention to the material life." Poughkeepsie is that city of the heart where no one can look at anyone else "alone," …

Ocean Beach At Twilight: 14, Dean Rader

English

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Trick Rider, Jen Tynes

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Trick Rider is a book-length poem in four sections, which uses characteristics of the epic and gothic, as well as strategies of chance operations, to explore the compositional process in relation to time, how time is experienced during the writing process and is communicated through the text as an object and through the process of reading. The polyphonic speaker of Trick Rider is a stunt double and experiences doubling, being both representative of and an outsider to the community she channels; this tension is simultaneously cause and effect of the text.

Wind After Wordsworth And The Renovation Sonnet: San Francisco, Dean Rader

English

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Blazing The Real: Writing By Indiana Children, Susan C. Adamson, Julie Patterson

Anthologies

I got my first camera when I was in third grade—a Brownie Hawkeye flash model with a snazzy little camera case. The instruction manual provided six simple steps for taking successful pictures.

Hold the camera steady, supporting it underneath. Then, with the sun behind your back or over your shoulder, locate the subject in the finder. At the instant of exposure, hold your breath and press the shutter release with a gentle squeezing action (Brownie Hawkeye Instruction Manual).

The camera came with two rolls of film, each with16 frames. I eagerly used them up and sent the exposed film off …

False Truths, Loren M. Deron

The Mercury

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“A Consistently Useful Measure”: Robert Creeley’S Writing/Reading Of Wallace Stevens, Patrick James Dunagan

Gleeson Library Faculty and Staff Research and Scholarship

While William Carlos Williams is the immediate literary predecessor often associated with having early influence on the work of Robert Creeley, Wallace Stevens, beginning in Creeley’s first letters in the early 1950s to the poet Charles Olson, and re-emerging in his later work, makes several appearances in the printed record. References to Stevens culminate in the final section of Creeley’s long poem “Histoire de Florida,” published in 1996, the beginning of the last decade of his life, where lines from Stevens’ “Anecdote of the Jar” (a poem which, as will be shown, remained central to Creeley throughout his life) are …

Science Fiction And Lyric Poetry, Seo-Young J. Chu

Publications and Research

This piece explores connections between science fiction and lyric poetry.

The Mercury 2011

The Mercury

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La Cloche, Sabrina M. Marinelli

The Mercury

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Et Cetera, Marshall University

Et Cetera

Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.

Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.

2011 Winter Quiz And Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

Quiz and Quill

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